Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-24
FUNNEL STORMS.
Further Reports of the Cyclone Of
Thursday Night fifteen People
Killed at Prescott, Kan,
Every House in the Town Wrecked and
the Country Completely Devas-
tated for Miles Around.
Seventeen People Killed in Linn County.
2hs Little Town OF Huntington,
Miss, Nearly Demolished,
AT PRESCOTT, KAN.

AT PRESCOTT, KAN.
FORT SCOTT, KAN, April pa special
from Prescott, this county, reports q
terrible cyclone on Thursday evening.
There were seventeen people killed at
diff rent points throughout the county
and an incalculable amount of damage
was done to all kinds of property. Pres
colt was literally wiped out Of existence,
not single building being lett standing
Hail fell all over the county, some stones
measuring thirteen lncnes in circum-
ference.
LIST OF CASUALTIES,
ST. Louis, Mo april 23-Dispatches
| from Prescott, Kan, give the following
list of casualties from the cyclone. The
killed are fifteen, namely:
CONSTABLE JAKE STEPH Ms,
WILL MACHOLE,
Mrs SARAH CRONE,
? FLYNN end three children,
JACOB BROACH and wife,
MRS. RICHARD HAWKINS,
MRS. DOUGLAS WALTER and infant,
An infant of I. 2 DEFINING,
OOe of JOE DUNCAN and
A eiX-year old child of WILL Mac
HOLE.
Those seriously injured are: Jim Wal
bridge, Ed Horn, George White, J. G.
Kiusey, William Campbell. On The farm
OF Richard Hawkins, he with his wife,
four children and Miss MInnieck of Oak
wood, Ill, visiting the family, were in
the house. the building was taken up
bodily, carried 200 yards and dropped in
an orchard. AL the occupants were hurt
very seriously and Mrs Hawkins killed.
Il is reported that several persons were
killed IN Blue Mound.
Every farmhouse in the patn of the
storm was demolished and every house
ii Prescott was ruined. -Four miles from
Prescott, Mr.. Films fine residence was
mashed dat aud Mrs. Finn and three
small children were MORALLY injured.
Two visitors were dangerously hurt.
jacob Brock aud wife and one son, and
William McKOld and wife aud child were
fatal riu--d. a few miles from this
scene, Mrs. BOgart, Mrs. Odell and Mr.
! II gan, wife and two children had taken
refuge IN a storm cellar when eight cows
/ fell on them throu-h the roof aud all
we're severely injured. William Brown
| ing1urg's family found refuge in q storm
We, while $4,000 in money was scattered
over fields.
Zen miles northwest of Prescott Mrs.
Sarah Crane was killed and her family
! injured by the crushing OF the house. In
a distance of twenty-five miles only one
| house Is known to have stood the storm.
/ II. G. Tripp of Kansas City was stand
! ing in the doorway Of Mauspve
Bros grocery store In Prescott when
the building was destroyed He was
| killed. The few buildings left standing
IN Prescott are stuck full of rafters. G.
K. I derwOOd's residence, the Baptist
and Methodist churches, W. II Billings
| ly's harness store, Perkins meat market
and the Prescott house are among other
{ buildings destroyed.
/ Nearly every house ct Miami Junction,
five miles north Of Prescott,
was blown down and several persons
were injured.
( Seventeen persons are known TO have
been killed in Linn county. About fifty
were seriously wounded in oOur0on
county. D. j. Fields farm was swept
clean of buildings and live stock. The
! Mills family was nearly exterminated
/ Two children and the father and mother
were killed A niece and one child were
| found barely alive, but will recover the
/ stone residence OF Samuel Gales was
zed to the ground IN Anderson county.
| The cyclone badly damaged the town
| of Colony.
At Blue Mound, town of 900 inhabi.
tants, twenty houses were wrecked anG
two persons were killed. Joseph Dun
cans house was hurled away in the midst
of a wedding, but the parties found re-
fuge in the cellar and were not injured.
IN MISSISSIPPI.
GREENyILLE, Miss, April 23.-Tbis
section was visited by terrible thuDde,
torn followed by heavy hail that killed
l We stock and injured many colored per
sons. In Bolivar county the town O.
Hunting was nearly demolished. a new
notel, RObertson's store aud dwelling
Warwick's hotel, Remie's dwelling, Ben
sons residence and several negro cabins
were destroyed. The debris was blown
several hundred yards.